On 3/11/09, ELA teacher grades 6,7,8 wrote:
> I am experimenting with moving from whole group reading to
> literature circles. Does anyone have any information or
> tips for me that they have found useful while trying
> literature circles? Any good books or cites? Thanks in
> advance for your help!
Hello,
I have a Reading Circle in my language class. I can apply
this to my 10th, 11th and 12th grades. But I don't know
whether it can be useful for 6,7,8. Because of our curriculum
I cannot allocate time for novel reading but we read short
stories. (In Turkey we do not have English Literature
curriculum for high schools. What I do is something extra) I
follow the "Reading Circle Roles" as mentioned in "Bookworms
Club" published by Oxford.The role sheets suit well to my 6-
student class since there are 6 roles. (But you can invent
more)The roles are: 1. Discussion Leader 2. Summarizer 3.
Connector 4. Word master 5. Passage Person 6. Culture
collector. Discussion leader asks a few general questions and
manages the group and starts the discussion.Summarizer
summarizes the story. Connector looks for connections between
the story and the world outside. Wordmaster looks for words
or short phrases that are new or difficult to understand or
that are important in the story and explains them. Passage
person finds interesting or difficult passages, makes notes
about the paragraphs that explain the characters etc. Culture
Collector looks for both differences and similarities between
his own culture and the culture found in the story. There are
some guiding questions for each role, too. I can write them
too if you think that these are useful.

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